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Unit 4 Vocab History
Term | Definition |
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nominating convention | a meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidate |
jacksonian democracy | support for an increase in voting rights by lowering property requirements, abolishing the influential second national bank, and encouraging westward expansion |
frontier | an undeveloped area |
reform | to improve (someone or something) by removing or correcting faults , problems, etc. |
democratic party | a political party formed by the supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824 |
spoils system | a politician's practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters |
kitchen cabinet | president Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisors; so called because they often met in the White House kitchen |
states' rights doctrine | the belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government |
nullify | make legally null and void; invalidate |
nullification crisis | a dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the constitution |
Second Bank of the US | the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the US, it was created to stabilize the economy following the war of 1812 |
McCulloch vs. Maryland | this ruling established that congress had the constitutional power to charter a bank, also known as national supremacy |
whig party | a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislature |
panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States that lead to an economic depression |
indian removal act | a congressional act that authorized the removal of native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river |
bureau of indian affairs | a gov't agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward native Americans |
Wocester vs. Georgia | this ruling made Georgia's removal of the Cherokee illegal but was not effective because Jackson supported Georgia with removal |
trail of tears | an 800 mile forced march made by the Cherokee nation from their homeland in Georgia to indian territory |
Cherokee | native American tribe that lived in the southeastern US, before they were moved to indian territory |
tariff of abominations | a tariff that was signed to protect industry in northern states |